Berlin (dpa) – The current calendar page for April 18, 2022:
16th calendar week, 108th day of the year 257 days until the end of the year Zodiac sign: Aries Name day: Aya, Wigo
HISTORICAL DATA
2021 – Twelve top European football clubs want to found a “Super League”. The financially lucrative competition would compete with the Champions League of the European Football Union UEFA. After fierce protests, the project is called off.
2020 – 47 unaccompanied children from Greek refugee camps end up in Hanover. The federal cabinet had previously decided on the first action.
2017 – With three goals in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals against FC Bayern, Real Madrid’s striker Cristiano Ronaldo became the first professional to score 100 goals in European football’s premier league.
2012 – King Juan Carlos publicly apologizes to the Spaniards over a controversial elephant hunt in Botswana.
2007 – More than 190 people die in one of the deadliest attacks in years in Baghdad. A car bomb killed around 140 Iraqis in the Al-Sadrija district alone.
2005 – The largest conclave to date to elect a new pope begins in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. 115 cardinals from 52 countries decide on the successor of John Paul II.
2002 – After 29 years in exile, former Afghan king Mohammed Sahir Shah returns to Kabul. The 87-year-old ex-monarch wants to head the traditional Loya Jirga People’s Assembly, which is intended to pave Afghanistan’s path to democracy.
1989 – For the first time since the currency reform, the Bundesbank presents a complete series of new banknotes. A 200 DM note is new.
1947 – British troops detonate 6700 tons of ammunition on the North Sea island of Heligoland. Operation “Big Bang” is considered to be the largest explosion using conventional means to date. The aim was to destroy important military installations. The island was uninhabited at the time.
BIRTHDAYS
1992 – Dzsenifer Marozsán (30), German footballer, Germany’s Footballer of the Year 2017, 2018 and 2019
1947 – Jame Woods (75), American actor (“The Assassination”, “Videodrome”)
1942 – Jochen Rindt, German racing driver, 1970 posthumous world championship title, 1970 died in an accident during the final practice session for the Italian Grand Prix
1937 – Marcia Haydée (85), Brazilian choreographer, ballet director at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart 1976-1996
1932 – Hans Peter Stihl (90), German businessman, President of the German Association of Industry and Commerce (DIHT) 1988-2001
DEATH DAYS
2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer and ethnologist (Kon-Tiki Expedition), born 1914
1997 – Herbert Czaja, German politician, President of the Association of Expellees 1970-1994, born 1914
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